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About the Book

Community Ties: Recipes for Rebuilding is a community cookbook filled with delicious, hearty family recipes to renew the body and mind from the inside out as a community heals from the Waldo Canyon Fire. Beautiful photographs from Colorado and homes being rebuilt, dot the landscape of this cookbook.

About the Author

I moved to Colorado Springs in summer of 2007. I've taught at Holmes Middle School ever since. During the summer of 2012, the community tragically lost 346 homes to the Waldo Canyon Fire and two people. In 2013, Black Forest residents also experienced a devastating wildfire where 502 homes burned and one person perished in the fire. I forgot my treasured family recipes while evacuating. If I forgot my treasured recipes, how many others might have forgotten their family's recipes and not been able to return to their homes? This project became a way of helping the families and the greater community renew from the inside out while they recover and rebuild from the losses.